FOREST CITY — The American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa is checking out a complaint about a Christmas display at the Winnebago County courthouse in Forest City.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The president of a company that manages two Des Moines apartments for the elderly and disabled is promising to attack a bedbug problem.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A proposal by the state Board of Regents would give two of Iowa's state universities until September to have plans ready for their athletic departments to stop using taxpayer dollars.
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WATERLOO - Waterloo Community Schools Superintendent Gary Norris said Thursday he is among three people being investigated by the FBI for the purchase of Promethean Activboards in Florida and Waterloo.
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DES MOINES — Floyd County Attorney Jesse Marzen has had his law license suspended for six months by the Iowa Supreme Court after the justices said he violated ethics rules.
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MEYER — Klapperich Farm Systems, Inc., of Meyer is providing a service that not only benefits local farmers and livestock producers, but also helps the environment.
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MASON CITY — The Humane Society of North Iowa took part in a massive rescue effort yesterday when an area puppy mill voluntarily shut down and needed to find homes for the 300 dogs that were displaced due to the closure.
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OKLAHOMA CITY — It was unsightly at times. It was downright ugly at others. It was physical throughout.
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DES MOINES – Lawmakers already investigating alleged abuses of tax funds by the Iowa Association of School Board may take up a report suggesting a central Iowa senior citizens agency has misused state and federal funds.
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MASON CITY — A group of 50 people of all ages, many of them wearing dark-framed “geek glasses,” marched down the Streetscape at The Music Man Square Thursday to help Mason City woo Google.
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